Ornithopter Posted January 15 Posted January 15 (edited) "As they sat at the end of the runway before takeoff, the WSO would put the pod in 9-acquire so it was looking left of the airplane. The pilot looked at his TV picture to see where the pod was looking; then he would look through the left side of the canopy at the same point. With his left eye closed, he then drew a half-dollar sized circle on the inside of the canopy aorund the point with a grease pencil. He then repeated the process wth his right eye closed. When he opened both eyes, the circle appeared as one black circle around the same point at which the pod was looking. Later, during the attack, with the pod in 9-acquire, he looked through the circles and flew the jet to superimpose them over the target, thus allowing the WSO to see the target in his TV picture. It was a five-cent fix to a multi-thousand-dollar problem" - Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade after Vietnam So, as pilot, I know how to use TGT Find with the Pod, with the Jester Context action, to designate a target under the gunsight reticle in 12-Vis. However, how do you do this in 9-Vis, looking 90 degrees left of the aircraft? I can't find any Jester command to make him flip the pod to 9-Vis, and also, it seems the Grease Pencil will only draw on the right side of the canopy. So there appears to be no way to do the above procedure from the book. So, is there some way to make Jester flip over to 9-Vis, without having to explicitly go to the back seat and flip the switch for him, and is there any way to draw on the left side of the cockpit with the Grease pencil? Edited January 15 by Ornithopter 2
Solution Zabuzard Posted January 16 Solution Posted January 16 "As they sat at the end of the runway before takeoff, the WSO would put the pod in 9-acquire so it was looking left of the airplane. The pilot looked at his TV picture to see where the pod was looking; then he would look through the left side of the canopy at the same point. With his left eye closed, he then drew a half-dollar sized circle on the inside of the canopy aorund the point with a grease pencil. He then repeated the process wth his right eye closed. When he opened both eyes, the circle appeared as one black circle around the same point at which the pod was looking. Later, during the attack, with the pod in 9-acquire, he looked through the circles and flew the jet to superimpose them over the target, thus allowing the WSO to see the target in his TV picture. It was a five-cent fix to a multi-thousand-dollar problem" - Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade after Vietnam So, as pilot, I know how to use TGT Find with the Pod, with the Jester Context action, to designate a target under the gunsight reticle in 12-Vis. However, how do you do this in 9-Vis, looking 90 degrees left of the aircraft? I can't find any Jester command to make him flip the pod to 9-Vis, and also, it seems the Grease Pencil will only draw on the right side of the canopy. So there appears to be no way to do the above procedure from the book. So, is there some way to make Jester flip over to 9-Vis, without having to explicitly go to the back seat and flip the switch for him, and is there any way to draw on the left side of the cockpit with the Grease pencil?Drawing on the left side is a planned feature, not yet supported.9-VIS with Jester is not supported at the moment. It wouldnt really make much sense to add right now, without Jester being able to do any A2G yet and without Grease Pencil on the left.Note that 9-VIS was overall considered a failure, they pretty much never used it according to all our SMEs. 2
Ornithopter Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 Excellent! I can definitely see that this kind of thing wouldn't be used very often, but the idea that someday we will be able to do it, grease pencil and all, is pretty amazing!
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